They want to know why you skipped the confirmation step.”

“Because the child said he’d told her not to talk to anybody.”

“Put it in their words, not yours.

The confirmation step is there so a supervisor signs off on a code red.

You went around it.”

“There wasn’t time to go hunting for you.”

“I was right there at the desk,” he said, and let it sit.

Claire gave the cup a quarter turn on the table.